Descr. All Epiphyte, attaching itself to the trunks of trees in 
the Indian forests, by stout fleshy whitish fibres. Pseudo-bulbs 
none. Leaves large, dark green, distichous, very thick and 
coriaceous, eUiptical-lanceolate, obliquely retuse. Peduncle long, 
pooping. Flmcers racemose, distichous, large, the ground of 
tne pimest white imaginable, becoming tinged with cream, or a 
yellowish hue in age: the Up only streaked and spotted with red 
and yellow. Perianth spreading almost exactly horizontally. 
Sepals uniform, elliptical-ovate: the petals large; subrhomboid, 
and in the broadest part nearly as broad as long. Labellum 
connate with the produced base of the column, smaller than the 
petals, free, three-lobed, with a callosity at the base: the side- 
lobes ascending, broad, petaloid, the intermediate one trowel- 
snaped, beanng two cunous incur\Td twisted cirrhi. Column 
semi-terete. Anther Pollen-masses ivfo, ^MbgXoho^e. 
